David Nutter (nacido en 1960) [ cita necesaria ] es un director de cine y televisión y productor de televisión estadounidense. Es mejor conocido por dirigir episodios piloto para televisión. En 2015, recibió un premio Primetime Emmy a la mejor dirección de serie dramática , por su trabajo en la serie de HBO Juego de tronos . [1]
Nutter nació en 1960. Se graduó de Dunedin High School en Dunedin, Florida , en 1978. Posteriormente se graduó de la Universidad de Miami , donde originalmente se matriculó para especializarse en música. [2]
Nutter comenzó su carrera dirigiendo episodios de Superboy y The X-Files . A partir de ahí pasaría a dirigir el piloto y ayudaría con la creación de Space: Above and Beyond , Millennium , Sleepwalkers , Roswell , Dark Angel , Smallville , Tarzan , Without a Trace , Dr. Vegas , Jack & Bobby , Supernatural , Traveler. , Terminator: Las crónicas de Sarah Connor , El mentalista y Shameless .
También dirigió " Replacements ", la cuarta parte de la miniserie Band of Brothers , y compartió el premio Primetime Emmy de esa serie a la mejor dirección de miniserie, película o especial dramático . Otros aspectos destacados de la dirección incluyen " Join the Club ", un episodio de Los Soprano nominado al Emmy , y el largometraje de 1998 Disturbing Behavior .
Nutter dirigió 10 episodios de la serie Entourage de HBO , incluidos " The Resurrection ", " The Prince's Bride " y el final de la serie, " The End ".
In 2008, LG used Nutter's pilot expertise to create a campaign for its new "Scarlet" line of HDTVs, by creating a promotional clip in the style of a trailer for a TV pilot.[3]
In 2011, Nutter directed the pilot of Rina Mimoun's The Doctor, for CBS.[4]
In 2012, Nutter directed "The Old Gods and the New" and "A Man Without Honor", two episodes of the second season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2013, he directed the last two episodes of the third season, "The Rains of Castamere" (with the infamous "Red Wedding" sequence) and "Mhysa".[5]
Nutter also directed the pilot of The CW series Arrow, based on the comic-book character Green Arrow, starring Stephen Amell.
In 2015, he returned to the series Game of Thrones to direct the last two episodes of the fifth season, "The Dance of Dragons" and "Mother's Mercy".[6] For the latter, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
In 2015, Nutter experienced a major injury that required several back surgeries, and had to skip directing any episodes of the next two seasons of Game of Thrones while he recovered.[7]
In September 2017, it was announced that Nutter would return to direct at least two episodes of the eighth season of Game of Thrones, alongside Miguel Sapochnik, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for the remainder of the episodes.[8] It was later confirmed that Nutter would direct three episodes, which includes the first, second, and fourth episodes of the eighth season.[9]
In May 2021, it was announced that Nutter would direct all six episodes of HBO series, The Time Traveler's Wife.[10]
The first sixteen pilots directed by Nutter all went to series.[4] This streak was broken in 2011 when CBS chose to not pick up Rina Mimoun's The Doctor.
Nutter estuvo casado con su esposa, Birgit, desde 1987 hasta su muerte por cáncer en 2019. [11] [12] Tienen dos hijos, la actriz Zoe K. Nutter y Ben Nutter. [2]